Ad lib.

Gregor Tatschl — Sun, 13 Aug 2017 20:30:17 +0000

Michele Spanghero (IT)

A medical machine for pulmonary ventilation plays a musical chord on a few organ pipes, a fragment of music (in reference to Johannes Brahms’ German Requiem) frozen to the constant rhythm of the automatic breath.

The action of this artificial organ raises ethical questions about the will and responsibility involved in this mechanical requiem, a metaphor for a limit that people delegate to technology.

Ad lib., the abbreviation of the Latin ad libitum, literally means “at will” and is generally used to express the freedom of a person to act according to their own judgment in a given context, but it is also a musical caption that gives the performer the discretion of interpretation, allowing certain bars of the score to be repeated at will.

Michele Spanghero: www.michelespanghero.com

Experts Tour: Insight Inside: Live Skype to the MRI Laboratory

Martin Hieslmair — Wed, 02 Aug 2017 06:33:30 +0000

Fraunhofer MEVIS Workshop with Yen Tzu Chang

For her performance Whose Scalpel, Yen Tzu Chang recorded her own heart data with the help of a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner. We are going to switch to the live stream of the MRI laboratory, where the researchers will give us detailed insights into the functions of the MRI scanner, and we can immediately ask questions and scan real pieces of fruit. On the computer, we can use the recorded data to recognize their internal structures without cutting the fruit open. Yen Tzu Chang will provide insight into her performance entitled Whose Scalpel and discuss images of her heart taken at the scanner with experts. Finally, we will continue to experiment with medical images of the human body using computers.

Sabrina Haase (DE), Yen Tzu Chang (TW), Bianka Hofmann (DE)

FRI Sept. 8, 2017

FRI Sept. 8, 2017, 3:00 PM-4:30 PM

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